Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 6 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 8 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 9 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 10 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 11 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 12 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 13 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 14 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 15 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 16 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 17 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 18 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 20 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 21 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 23 | An inquest 's been hearing how a fifteen year old public schoolboy died in an accident after taking his brother 's car . |
| 24 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 25 | An inquest 's been hearing how a teenage joyrider died when he crashed a stolen car while trying to escape from police . |
| 26 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 27 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 28 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 30 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |